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fseventsd – a Mac OS X resource hog? →
I’m running no apps but the computer is very busy and when checking the Activity Monitor, this “fseventsd” process is hogging a lot of CPU and RAM…
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Nuke & CPU usage: Priority vs Affinity →
On Windows, sometimes Nuke and Maya fights over resources, especially the CPU. This can become apparent when background rendering with Maya.
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Getting V-Ray to render “Nuke-style” Z-depth →
Out of the box, V-Ray for Maya does not render Z-depth the same way Nuke does. Here’s a quick fix for that (not applicable for most DOF plugins).
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V-Ray for Maya: notes on arbitrary location setup →
Running V-Ray for Maya in a production environment has its quirks. I have collected some bits and pieces off the Chaos Group forum and assembled it all here.
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Nuke 6.3 small studio setup for Win/Mac →
This is a quick guide to setting Nuke 6.3 up with a custom menu and make it work more seamlessly across operating systems.
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Adding external folders to Dropbox as a short-term backup solution →
How to use Dropbox as a backup for external files and folders outside of your Dropbox folder.
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Remote Windows management with PsTools, pt 3 →
In this third article on PsTools I talk about how to control V-Ray DR slaves remotely with the PsTools suite.
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Remote Windows management with PsTools, pt 2 →
In this second part of managing Windows machines using the PsTools suite, we will look at how to automate processes involving interacting with a server.
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Remote Windows management with PsTools, pt 1 →
One of the advantages of running Linux on render farm machines is the possibility to remotely manage them using the command line. However if you are running the farm on Windows, this is a whole different kind of story.
